ночная бабочка

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Russian

Pronunciation

Noun

ночна́я ба́бочка (nočnája bábočkaf anim (genitive ночно́й ба́бочки, nominative plural ночны́е ба́бочки, genitive plural ночны́х ба́бочек)

  1. moth, night fly
    • 1909–1915, Александр Куприн , “Часть вторая, VI”, in Яма; English translation from Bernard Guilbert Guerney, transl., The Pit, (Please provide a date or year):
      Площа́дку я́рко, бле́дно и ме́ртвенно освеща́ли электри́ческие шары́ со свои́х высо́ких мачт. Об их ма́товые стёкла, обтя́нутые про́волочными се́тками, би́лись ту́чи ночны́х ба́бочек, те́ни кото́рых — сму́тные и больши́е — ре́яли внизу́, на земле́.
      Ploščádku járko, blédno i mértvenno osveščáli elektríčeskije šarý so svoíx vysókix mačt. Ob ix mátovyje stjókla, obtjánutyje próvoločnymi sétkami, bílisʹ túči nočnýx báboček, téni kotóryx — smútnyje i bolʹšíje — réjali vnizú, na zemlé.
      Electric globes from their high masts illuminated the small square with a pale, dead-white brightness. Against their frosted glass, with wire nets stretched over them, beat clouds of night moths, whose shadows—confused and large—hovered below, on the ground.
  2. (figuratively, euphemistic) prostitute

Declension